Cass R. Sunstein

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report that forcing participants to make an active choice between a green energy provider and a standard energy provider led to higher enrollment in the green program than did either green energy defaults or standard energy defaults, but only when green energy cost extra, which suggests reactance towards green defaults when enrollment means additional private costs.

TL;DR: The authors show that the same information can activate radically different memories and associated convictions, thus producing polarized responses to that information, or what they call a memory boomerang. But they also show that corrections of falsehoods can actually backfire, by increasing people's commitment to their inaccurate beliefs, and that presentation of balanced information can promote polarization, thus increasing preexisting social divisions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider not only the overall welfare but also the distributional effects of personalized, personalized nudges to maximize social welfare and promote distributive justice, and suggest that more targeted, personalized personalized nudging may be needed.

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that judges' policy preferences affect judicial decisions about whether agency decisions are "arbitrary" or "capricious" and that Republican appointees are far more likely to invalidate, as arbitrary, conservative agency decisions than liberal agency decisions.

TL;DR: I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom, so that the rulers do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in their rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.